The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, December 17, 1916, SECTION TWO, Page 16, Image 40

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    THE SUXDAT OttEGOXIAN", PORTLAND. DECEMBER
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Section One
Pages 1 to 12
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OPPORTUNITIES to build up foreign trade; to establish more
industrial plants; to capitalize Oregon's wealth of raw ma
terials; to extend its domestic commerce; to expand its inter-
nal development will be emphasized in the Annual Number.
The shipbuilding industry, already representing more than $25,
000,000 in actual business, will be especially featured.
Facts portraying the general progress of the State and showing
opportunities in agriculture and. industry will be presented.
The Special Number will contain four complete sections de
voted to the progress of Portland and the State.
It will be the most complete pictorial number ever published in
Oregon.
Place
Cents
Your Order Now. The Price Is Only Five
Postage Five Cents Additional. Order
Blanks Are Printed Elsewhere in This Issue
WOMEN SEEK TOYS
Parents Ask for Gifts for
Those Santa Forgets.
GIRLS TO DRESS DOLLS
Boys Will Mend Broken Playthings
and Schools AVill Collect All Out
grown Toys for Poor on Thurs
day and Friday.
very little In this connection. To rem
edy this distressing- situation we
earnestly pray for your help by sup
porting the salary increases recom
mended by the American Federation of
Labor and the Nolan minimum wage
bill."
Who will contribute a doll, a book
or a toy for the little people who are
very apt to be overlooked by Santa
Claus?
The plea is made by the social serv
ice department of the Portland Parent
Teacher Council. Mrs. W. I. Swank is
acting: as chairman of the Christmas
toy committee and she is determined
that no child in Portland shall be for
gotten. v
Next Thursday and Friday the parent-teacher
folk will set aside as "Toy
days." To prepare for the distribution
the committee has asked each school
to gather together as many toys as
possible. In each school the social serv
ice chairman will assemble the dona
tions and see that they are taken to
the headquarters at Fourteenth and
Johnson streets:
The boys of the manual training: de
partment will mend all the toys that
are broken and the girls of the sewing
classes will dress all the dolls. It will
be one jolly, happy time for the chil
dren who give and the children who
receive. Toys that little folks have
outgrown, dolls that belonged to little
girls who no longer play with dolls
and books that have been read and re
read will be donated to the cause. Tol
the homes where sickness and sorrow
and poverty make a Christmas celebra
tion impossible the parent-teacher
women will take the gifts and give a
ray of sunshine to the children.
Every hospital ward will be visited
and all the institutions that will not
be otherwise remembered. All who wish
to assist in this big round of giving
may take their gifts to any of the
Bchools or to the headquarters at Four
teenth and Johnson streets, or they
may communicate with Mrs. W. I.
Swank, chairman.
TRAFFIC OFFENDERS FINED
Two of Them Spend Three Hours
Each in Meditation Cell.
Almost three months ago A. B. Cura
mings, chauffeur for Dr. J. K. Mount,
of Oregon City, was arrested by Motor
cycle Patrolman Ervin for speeding.
He was released on his promise to ap
pear In court the next day. He did
not keep his word. A few days ago
Dr. Mount learned of his chauffeur's
dereliction and instructed him to ap
pear in court.
Yesterday morning, before Munici
pal Judge Langguth, the tardy ' of
fender confessed his fault. He was
ordered to pay a fine of 12 and spend
three reflective hours in a quiet cell.
A. R. Hawley was ordered to spend
three hours in jail and pay J12 to the
city.
Others arrested by Patrolman Ervin
and convicted yesterday were: W. B.
Tull, who was fined S10: G. T. Panze.
fined 12: William Santore. fined $12.
O. R. Zimmerman, who was shown the
meditation cell." and R. H. Randolph.
who was sentenced to serve half an
hour.
School Standard Announced.
CHEHALIS, Wash., Dec 16. (Spe
cial.) A. C. Canterbury, Lewis County
Superintendent, after careful study
and investigation, has formulated eight
requirements for standardizing the
rural schools of the county. These
rules have been issued to the teachers
and they are to be posted in the school
rooms. Some of the requirements are
scientific heating, lighted and ven
tilated buildings, proper equipment of
all kinds and community work.
Nearly 1000 varieties of rice have
been identified in the Philippines by
government scientists.
T. RYAN SENDS CALF
Mr. Yeon Receives Package by
Express From Virginia.
HIGHWAY TRIP REWARDED
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New York Financier' Delighted Wltli
Treatment in Portland, and
Sends Christmas Present to
Host on Highway Trip.
Being roadmaster of Multnomah.
County without a salary has its com
pensations after all.
For three years now John B. Yeon,
millionaire good-roads enthusiast and
philanthropist, has been head of the
road department of this old county at
a flat salary of nothing a year.
True, he has had some flattery, a lit
tle praise, more or less appreciation
and a whole lot of grief, but he has
had no material rewards, so to speak
That is. not until--
But let the story speak for itself:
Early in September Thomas Fortune
Ryan, prominent New York Banker,
railroad and coal mine operator, stock
breeder. capitalist and sometimes
Democratic politician, came to Portland
in his private car.
Crown Point View Deltshta.
As is his wont, Mr.' Yeon took Mr.
Ryan and his party on a trip over the
Columbia River Highway in his auto
mobiles. Mr. Ryan was pleased beyond meas
ure as everyone is who sees the high
way. "Well, sir," commented the- New
Yorker as he stood on Crown Point giv
ing the scenery the once to twice over,
"his beats anything I ever saw and
I have traveled some, too. I never
have seen scenery like this, and I never
have seen a road like this. Here you
have the combination of road and
scenery."
Mr. Yeon explained that the road
has been built by the people of Mult
nomah County as an attraction for
tourists. Others in the party told of
Mr. Yeon's remarkable self-sacrlflce In
giving his services to the road work.
"When I get back to New York I'm
going to remember Mr. Yeon," declared
Mr. Ryan assuringly.
"Now that'll be all right." protested
Mr. Yeon.
Package Proven to Be Calf.
The incident was quite forgotten un
til a few days ago, when Mr. Yeon re
ceived a telephone call from a local
express office.
"Say; we have a package down here
from New York, all prepaid and every
thing. Where shall we deliver it?"
Mr. Yeon told them to deliver it at
his home.
When it arrived the "package" was
discovered to be a crate containing a
fine Guernsey heifer. Accompanying
her was a pedigree as long as a man's
arm. She is registered under the name
of "Indomitable Minnie of Oak Ridge."
Her grandfather is "Imperial Amiable
of the Isle," a famous bull.
The heifer was bred by Mr. Ryan on
his famous Oak Ridge stock farm in
Virginia and sent as a Christmas pres
ent to Mr. Yeon in appreciation of his
work on the Columbia River Highway.
SLAYER WAITS 18 YEARS
JAMES FOLEY CONFESSES MIRDER
AT NOME TO AVENGE PAL.
C. E. Meyers, professor of experi
mental vegetable growing at Pennsyl
vania State College. Center County,
Pennsylvania has succeeded in grafting
tomatoes to potato plants.
Portland Underworld Known Slayer and
Whispers of Killing; Have LonsT
Been Current Here.
James Foley, held In Tacoma as the
self-confessed murderer of "Diamond
Dutch." who was shot to death In Nome.
Alaska. 18 years ago. is thought by
local officers to be no other than Frank
Nolan, a "yegg." whose picture is in
the Portland police records and who
was arrested here in 1909 on a va
grancy charge.
For years Nolan, who was known to
the underworld as "Big Johnny" and
"Connecticut Slim." made this city a
stopping point on his annual migration
from the south. At such times he was
a well-known character of the North
End and always under the espionage of
the police. He was arrested in 1909 by
Detectives Coleman and Snow on a
vagrancy charge and as a suspected
sare-Diower.
The killing of "Diamond Dutch" was
almost ancient history in yeggdom. as
was the earlier and similarly trasrtc
taking off of "Dublin Mickey." Both
were known In the Portland under
world, however, and It was also com
mon knowledge that "Dublin Mlckev"
NEW YORK FINANCIER'S CHRISTMAS APPRECIATION TO JOHN B.
YEON FOR SHOWING HIM PLEASURES OF COLUMBIA
RIVER HIGHWAY.
FEDERAL UNION ASKS RISE
Government Employes Want Mr.
Chamberlain to Back Increases.
Members of Federal Employes' Union,
No. 15.261. comprising Federal em
ployes in Portland, have sent the fol
lowing telegram to Senator Chamber
lain requesting him to support a meas
ure to increase their salaries:
"In the last few years a dollar has
depreciated 39 cents for purchasing
wheat, 14 cents for meat. 61 cents for
potatoes 65 cents for cotton and 35
cents for wool, which makes an average
of 43 cents for these staples. There are
men working in Portland eight hours a
day for the Federal Government who
are paid only $660 a year, the purchas
ing power of which for bread, meat.
potatoes and clothing amounts to only
$376 a year. They cannot support their
families on this amount. Nearly if not
all corporations have increased wages
to meet the increased cost of living.
while the Federal Government has done
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Pure-Bred Guernsey Heifer From Tkonaa F. Ryan Virginia Stock Farm.
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THOMPSON'S
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The kind that make you
feel YOUNG without
making; you LOOK old.
Thompson Optica
Institute
Second Floor Corbet t Bldg.
Fifth and Morrison
Portland's Oldest and Larg
est Exclusive Optical House
and "Big Johnny," or Frank Nolan, had
been pals. Both killings in the Alas
kan country remained unsolved, so far
as the law was concerned, but the un
derworld discussed them.
It was whispered that poor "Big
Johnny" was going "dippy."- Why? Be
cause he had slain "Diamond Dutch" in
Nome. And the reason for "Diamond's"
demise? Ho killed "Big Johnny's" pal.
"Dublin Mickey," whose tardiness with
the trigger had been fatal. When
Nolan passed through Portland and
rambled about the North End hang
outs, these whispers sprang up. They
became commonly known to the police,
but no action was taken for lack of
evidence.
" "Big Johnny used to come up from
the south, over the hump' when the
geese started in the Spring." recalled
Detective Snow. "He operated around
here in the Summer. Every yegg In
town knew the story of his killing
'Diamond Dutch.' "
"This 'Big Johnny," or 'Con Slim,' as
they called-him. was a 'thrower.'" con
tributed Detective Coleman. "He was
'good.' He could dislocate his elbows,
his knees, his Jaw, whenever he wanted
to. Then he'd string a story and gather
In the coin. He made sometimes as
high as J40 a day, the yeggs said."
'WHISKY AND MAN TAKEN
CHARLES MELT ARRESTED AFTER
ALLEGED RI SE.
Toledo School Teacher Stricken.
TOLEDO. Wash.. Dec. 16. (Special.)
Miss Mabel Sneider, a Toledo school
teacher, suffered an acute attack of
appendicitis Sunday, and .was taken to
Tacoma to undergo an operation. Dur
ing her absence Mrs. Fred M. Martin
has charge of the primary department.
Suxpert Declared to Have Boarded Train
From California on East Side.
Leavinc It at I'nlon Station.
When Charles Helt emerged from tho
Union Depot yesterday morning with
five traveling bags distributed about
his person and hailed a taxi. Deputy
Sheriff Christof ferson gave pursuit.
The officer leaped the running-board
of the flying taxi, collared Holt and
opened the suitcases. He said he found
60 quarts of whisky' in them.
Helt had been shadowed by Deputy
Christofferson yesterday, for he was
suspected of bootlegging. He escaped
conviction in the District Court on tho
charge last week. The officer says ho
saw Helt board the Southern Pacifio
train from California at the East
Morrison street depot. Christofferson.
climbed into an automobile and beat
the train to the depot. He waited at
the entrance, and soon Helt appeared,
laden with suitcases, which he did not
have when he boarded the train.
Co-operation on the part of employes
of the railway company is alleged by
Sheriff Hurlburt. who may demand are
invest iuation by railroad officials.
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pianos, player pianos, baby grands
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